Is Mini sat nav the worst fitted to a modern car?

[philcray]

Had our Mini Clubman Cooper S for a couple of years now and it is a very nice car, comfortable and practical with a good spec. However the sat nav has a number of design issues and has to be the most difficult to follow that I have come across.

The main problem is that the road you are due to follow is not distinctively identified relative to all the other roads on the screen, eg it looks to be faintly highlighted in yellow/green but then so are lots of the other surrounding roads? I may be missing something so if anyone knows how to make the actual route more visible, that would be appreciated. It also took me a while to work out how to control the volume as it does not mute the radio, which seems to be something of a basic design fault (I can't be the only person to be frantically trying to turn the radio down via the steering wheel controls, so I can hear satnav woman, not realising that in doing so I am actually turning her volume down. I have worked that out now but it is still a bit of a fiddly process).

The other annoyance is that it keep zooming out automatically when you zoom in to try try and focus on the nearby roads.

I have an "ancient" Garmin sat nav I bought about 10 years ago and this is a great example of simple functional design, no unnecessary info and the route is clearly highlighted. Kept up to date with regular downloads.

Any thoughts or tweaks to improve Mini sat nav welcome.....

[philcray]

CoolHands said:

Mine is like this. White is my route, purple is (I think) the main A roads nearby. This is on a 2013 R-series car but I presume you are on a later F-series

Edited by CoolHands on Tuesday 19th October 21:52

Mine is the later version, it is not as clear as yours unfortunately....

[philcray]

That's clear to me, I use a 10 year old Garmin in my LR and that works fine (just needs regular updating of the maps)